This book is the story of John Lennon's life and career, from his earliest days up to his last seconds. He was one of the world's most influential people, achieving with the Beatles a level of superstardom that defied classification. "We were the best bloody band there was", he said. "There was nobody to touch us." In the summer of 1980, Lennon signs with a label and hires a top producer to recruit the best session musicians, ready to record new music for the first time in years. They are awestruck when Lennon dashes off. "(Just Like) Starting Over." Lennon is back in peak form, with his best songwriting since "Imagine". Except Mark David Chapman was one of the most invisible men and Lennon was a marked man. As early as the Beatles' controversial 1966 American tour, during which the band had feared for their safety, Lennon had complained, "You might as well put a target on me." The Nixon administration did just that, putting Lennon under FBI surveillance. If only the agents hadn't been so intently focused on the star himself, they might have detected Mark David Chapman's powerful, ever-growing obsession with the man he'd grown up idolizing. Chapman, himself a tragic nowhere man, ultimately achieved the notoriety he craved by making the target on Lennon very real - and single-handedly wounding the spirit of a generation. Enriched by exclusive interviews with Lennon's friends and associates, including Paul McCartney,the book is a true-crime drama about two men who changed history. One whose indelible songs enliven our world to this day - and the other who ended the beautiful music with five pulls of a trigger. RUNNING TIME => 9hrs. ©2020 James Patterson, Casey Sherman, and Dan Wedge (P)2020 Little, Brown & Company